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Corporate Author Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Title Masterpieces of the mineral world : treasures from the Houston Museum of Natural Science / Wendell E. Wilson, Joel A. Bartsch, with Mark Mauthner.

Imprint Houston, Tex. : Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Mineralogical Record, in association with H.N. Abrams ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, ©2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  553.8 H818m 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 33 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263).
Contents Introduction : the mineral collection of the Houston Museum of Natural Science / Joel A. Bartsch, Wendell E. Wilson and Mark Mauthner -- The discerning eye : what makes a mineral collectible? / Wendell E. Wilson -- Plates / Wendell E. Wilson and Joel A. Bartsch -- The paths of discovery : from the mine to the museum / Wendell E. Wilson -- A royal passion : a history of aristocratic mineral collecting from the 16th to the 20th centuries / Wendell E. Wilson.
Subject Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Houston Museum of Natural Science. (OCoLC)fst00568559
Minerals -- Pictorial works.
Minerals -- Catalogs and collections -- Texas -- Houston.
Minerals -- Collection and preservation -- History.
Mineral industries.
Mines and mineral resources.
Mineral industries. (OCoLC)fst01022218
Minerals. (OCoLC)fst01022445
Minerals -- Catalogs and collections. (OCoLC)fst01022449
Minerals -- Collection and preservation. (OCoLC)fst01022451
Mines and mineral resources. (OCoLC)fst01022541
Texas -- Houston. (OCoLC)fst01205077
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Illustrated works.
Added Author Wilson, Wendell E.
Bartsch, Joel A.
Mauthner, Mark.
ISBN 0810967510 (hc)
9780810967519 (hc)

 
    
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